Product design question

Design a library for the future.

Practice this question out loud. An AI interviewer asks it, follows up like a real interviewer would, and scores your answer. Type or speak.

What this question tests

Open ended product vision: picking a specific evolving user need rather than just digitizing the current experience.

Clarify the scope, a physical space, a digital service, or both, and state the assumption, likely a hybrid physical digital community space.
Identify how usage is shifting, less about physical book lending, more about digital access, community programming, and quiet workspace.
Propose the core future value proposition, a community hub combining digital content access, maker or creation spaces, and curated expert led programming.
Address a specific underserved need, equitable access to digital tools and internet for those without them at home.
Define success metrics, community program attendance and digital resource usage per member, not just physical book checkouts.

Grounds the vision in a real observed shift, declining physical book circulation alongside rising demand for digital access and community space.
Names a specific underserved need, digital equity for those without home internet or devices, tying the mission to a concrete modern problem.
Sets metrics that reflect the new value proposition, program attendance and digital resource usage, instead of clinging to physical checkout counts.

Only proposing technology add ons like e readers with no rethinking of the space's actual future role.
Ignoring the community and equity mission that public libraries specifically serve.
No metric defined that reflects the redesigned value proposition.

How would you fund this given most libraries operate on limited public budgets?
How would you measure success differently for a library in a low income area versus an affluent one?